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We consider the $2m$-th order elliptic boundary value problem $Lu=f(x,u)$ on a bounded smooth domain $\Omega\subset\R^N$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions on $\partial\Omega$. The operator $L$ is a uniformly elliptic linear operator of…

We consider the semilinear elliptic equation $-L u = f(u)$ in a general smooth bounded domain $\Omega \subset R^{n}$ with zero Dirichlet boundary condition, where $L$ is a uniformly elliptic operator and $f$ is a $C^{2}$ positive,…

We consider fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations with quadratic growth in the gradient, such as $$ -F(x,u,Du,D^2u) =\lambda c(x)u+\langle M(x)D u, D u \rangle +h(x) $$ in a bounded domain with a Dirichlet boundary condition, here…

We consider the following problem $ -\Delta_{p}u= h(x,u) \mbox{ in }\Omega$, $u\in W^{1,p}_{0}(\Omega)$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$, $1<p<N$, with a smooth boundary. In this paper we assume that…

We show that if $u$ is a solution to a linear elliptic differential equation of order $2m\geq 2$ in the half-space with $t$-independent coefficients, and if $u$ satisfies certain area integral estimates, then the Dirichlet and Neumann…

In this paper we study strongly coupled elliptic systems in non-variational form involving fractional Laplace operators. We prove Liouville type theorems and, by mean of the blow-up method, we establish a priori bounds of positive solutions…

This work deals with the system $(-\Delta)^m u= a(x) v^p$, $(-\Delta)^m v=b(x) u^q$ with Dirichlet boundary condition in a domain $\Omega\subset\RR^n$, where $\Omega$ is a ball if $n\ge 3$ or a smooth perturbation of a ball when $n=2$. We…

We consider positive semistable solutions $u$ of $Lu+f(u)=0$ with zero Dirichlet boundary condition, where $L$ is a uniformly elliptic operator and $f\in C^2$ is a positive, nondecreasing, and convex nonlinearity which is superlinear at…

We consider classical solutions to $-\Delta u = f(u)$ in half-spaces, under homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove that any positive solution is strictly monotone increasing in the direction orthogonal to the boundary, provided…

We investigate critical polyharmonic equations of the following type: $$ Lu = |u|^{2^\sharp-2} u \quad \text{ in } \Omega $$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions, in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$. Here $L$ is an elliptic…

We prove a Liouville type classification theorem in half-spaces for infinite boundary value problems related to fully nonlinear, uniformly elliptic operators. We then apply the result in order to obtain gradient boundary blow up rates for…

In this paper, we mainly discuss a priori bounds of the following degenerate elliptic equation, {equation}\label{000} a^{ij}(x)\partial_{ij}u+b^i(x)\partial_i u +f(x,u)=0,\text{in}\Omega\subset\subset R^n, {equation} where $a^{ij}\partial_i…

We consider a semilinear elliptic equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions in a smooth, possibly unbounded, domain. Under suitable assumptions, we deduce a condition on the size of the domain that implies the existence of a positive…

We consider the Dirichlet problem for positive solutions of the equation $-\Delta_p (u) = f(u)$ in a convex, bounded, smooth domain $\Omega \subset\R^N$, with $f$ locally Lipschitz continuous. \par We provide sufficient conditions…

We investigate quantitative properties of nonnegative solutions $u(x)\ge 0$ to the semilinear diffusion equation $\mathcal{L} u= f(u)$, posed in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset {\mathbb R}^N$ with appropriate homogeneous Dirichlet or outer…

We derive a priori bounds for positive supersolutions of $ - \Delta_{p} u = \rho(x) f(u) $, where $p>1$ and $\Delta_{p}$ is the $p$-Laplace operator, in a smooth bounded domain of $R^{N}$ with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions. We apply…

In this paper, we study the boundary H\"older regularity for solutions to the fractional Dirichlet problem in unbounded domains with boundary \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} (-\Delta)^s u(x) = g(x),&\text{in } \Omega, u(x)=0, &\text{in }…

We provide a-priori $L^\infty$ bounds for positive solutions to a class of subcritical elliptic problems in bounded $C^2$ domains. Our arguments rely on the moving planes method applied on the Kelvin transform of solutions. We prove that…

Let $u$ be a bounded positive solution to the problem $-\Delta_p u = f(u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N_+$ with zero Dirichlet boundary condition, where $p>1$ and $f$ is a locally Lipschitz continuous function. Among other things, we show that if…

This article establishes existence, non-existence and Liouville-type theorems for nonlinear equations of the form $$-div (|x|^{a} D u ) = f(x,u), ~ u > 0,\, \mbox{ in } \Omega,$$ where $N \geq 3$, $\Omega$ is an open domain in…